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David Hume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian who was one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Historians most famously see Humean philosophy as a thoroughgoing form of skepticism, but many commentators have argued that the element of naturalism has no less importance in Hume's philosophy. ..." |
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| 26 Apr 1711, in Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| 25 Aug 1776, in Edinburgh
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David Hume
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
David Hume, 1711-1776
The History of Economic Thought, The New School for Social Research |
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My Own Life, 18 Apr 1776
"My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my industry, gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me; but I found an insurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy and general learning; and while they fancied I was poring upon Voet and Vinius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was secretly devouring." |
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